'ello there, everyone! I'm Shadowhunter, Shadow for short, and I am quite crazy. Crazy-good or crazy-bad, I leave up to you. I've RPed for about two years now, on the CMC forums, where Zemyla is also a member. I won't say that I'm good or bad, but I do enjoy it.

Few facts about me. I really, really like chocobos, and for no good reason that I can think of. Don't try deep-frying them around me, I might turn green and grow. I enjoy CCGs, such as Magic: The Gathering. Yes, I've played YGO and Pokemon, to my shame. M:TG is by far the best, though. Cardmaster Conflict (CMC) is also a CCG, and I play it daily. I'm a reading fanatic- I've read basically all my life, in fiction/fantasy/science fiction.

I'm gonna read through some RPs, see how you guys do it... and hopefully, I'll be able to join one in the near future. RPing is one of my favorite ways to pass the time. I'm also currently writing a story on my main/favorite character's background. Like something you might find from a book. Of course, I'd have to get off my lazy tush to work on it.

...well, it's probably just me and Mus. But there used to be more cross-pollination between the RPGWW and Adv! forums. Anyways, glad to see you here!

I think boobs are the lesser of two evils. - Inverse (Pervy)
Dammit, Dan, I'm not dating a damn NPC! - OOC Will (Will Baseton)
Of course! Anything worth doing is worth doing completely wrong! - Travis English
Ultimately, wizards and clerics don't say, "Gee, I want to become a lich because weapons hurt less and I don't have to worry about being backstabbed; that whole 'eternal life' thing is just a fringe benefit."-Darklion
But this one time I killed a walrus with my bare hands, and I suddenly understood spherical coordinates. - KnightsofSquare
Also, when you've worked a 36-hour shift as an intern you too just might pour yourself a catful of coffee and sit down to cuddle with your travel mug. -eirehound

Also, my character sheets are actually quite a bit different from those I'm seeing in the Character Closet. Not that it really matters, unless I'm doing Philsys or whatever. Which, by the way, I'd never heard of previously. Seems like a good way to go about it, at least.

Btw, my characters involve:

Shadowhunter, the Chaos Dragon/Author that has a rather complicated history, and knows of events that my main character is gonna be dealing with. He's also very chaotic, surprise surprise.

Myriad, the Wind Dragon. Main character - or at least favorite. First appeared in a duel, with an ex-paladin belonging to my RPing buddy. Since then, the two have become friends. They've dueled again, with no winner, and been in an RP, which was very enjoyable. Unfortunately, there's just not enough new RPs of my type for Myriad to participate in, so my grand scheme is kinda on hold.

Skye, the Water/Ice Dragon. Playful and carefree, shapechanges to various animals he's seen before.

Sheel, the Fire Dragon. Rather self-centered and violent, believes highly in dragon superiority. As such, humans and the rest are inferior races to him.

Bob, the character who never actually appeared, and is a young boy who thinks he's Myriad/Skye/Sheel's brother. That is utter fabrication. Comic relief.

Il'leth, the psychic wolf priestess. Who, conviently enough, grew up isolated, her race at war with the dragons for caves. Because of this, she hates dragons. Recently went into the human world to find out current events and a way to save her dying race.

Choco, the good Chocobo that makes CCG cards real.

Choco, the evil Chocobo that makes CCG cards real.

Shade, the Reploid that is currently beheaded, disarmed, and lying sparking on a field. Didn't like him anyway. Whiney baby who never got a good reputation.

Joshua Dirkel, teenage kid attending a school for people with superpowers. He's a berserker.

Brinn: New character, hasn't yet been in an RP. Older mercenary, down on luck and money. Searching for a new contract.

As a note, my dragon characters all are usually in human form. Why? I don't know. It makes it more funner. I'm also writing a story on Myriad, as I said, though I'm kinda lazy and uninventive for it. The first sections are here. Part four is about halfway done, though I can't find the paper I was writing on. This was kind of an in-school boredom thing.

I am reachable by nearly every messaging client known to man, so feel free to poke me if you need anything.

Chat is kind of iffy right now due to some problems AIM is having. All of their chat rooms have been really sporadic, but we always come back to the same room. Hopefully at some point we'll be able to catch you there.

You mentioned you'd never heard of Philsys, which is kind of natural, considering it's a homegrown system around here. There are plenty of dragon characters made in Philsys, so that shouldn't be a problem at all.

If you decide you do want to use that system, there's information about it on the wiki. Feel free to use that as a guide and by all means... ask for assistance or clarification if you need it. We're well aware that Philsys can be a bit of a pain for people who are new to it.

Feel free to poke around and do whatever you need to in order to feel comfortable with setting and system stuff. We're here to help if you need us, so feel free to bug someone if you've got questions.

Yeah, the philsys stuff is a lot to swallow all at once, especially when it's brand new. I didn't touch the stuff for months. A lot of folks'll be willing to help you with that stuff, since they remember their days of "wtf is it?"

As for chat, I'll add your username onto my AIMlist and invite you into chats when I plan to start up chats. Typically, chats are always up, with at least Taiar in them, but as Kai said--AIM has been gimping these last few weeks. Mass puking chatters and all. It's sad. :'[

shadowhunter wrote:Shadowhunter, the Chaos Dragon/Author that has a rather complicated history, and knows of events that my main character is gonna be dealing with. He's also very chaotic, surprise surprise.

Spam RPs--in Kotoki's, or randomly in chat, but that's about it. See FFF's rare but wonderful sprite threads.

shadowhunter wrote:Myriad, the Wind Dragon. Main character - or at least favorite. First appeared in a duel, with an ex-paladin belonging to my RPing buddy. Since then, the two have become friends. They've dueled again, with no winner, and been in an RP, which was very enjoyable. Unfortunately, there's just not enough new RPs of my type for Myriad to participate in, so my grand scheme is kinda on hold.

Could easily be worked into the Gaera Main setting as a wind/lightning elemental dragon. Look at http://mysidia.org/rpgww/Dragon -- Aldrosian: pure-elemental. You could also have Myriad have a terrain specialty if you wanted (just would have a difference in physical abilities, shape/size, etc.).

shadowhunter wrote:Skye, the Water/Ice Dragon. Playful and carefree, shapechanges to various animals he's seen before.

Like above, but the shapechanging needs special consideration. The only shapechanging ability dragons have is the ability to switch from dragon to human/elf form (one or the other, not both) and back again. Being able to shapechange to animal form, and multiple animals at that, would require wacky magical skill, and advanced skill at that.

shadowhunter wrote:Sheel, the Fire Dragon. Rather self-centered and violent, believes highly in dragon superiority. As such, humans and the rest are inferior races to him.

As the above two. Note, the situation for dragons in Gaera varies widely depending on where the dragon lives. Dragons who run amok in Doma are going to find themselves under the royal lock and key, with the rest of the criminals, or in more severe cases executed. Dragons in and around Riva may have more leeway, but have to contend with dragon-hunting teams of dragoons--who are a lot less easy to predict, in terms of skill and movement and where in the heck they'll be, than the Doman guard.

shadowhunter wrote:Bob, the character who never actually appeared, and is a young boy who thinks he's Myriad/Skye/Sheel's brother. That is utter fabrication. Comic relief.

Spam, Kotoki's, etc. No real place for actual RPs.

shadowhunter wrote:Il'leth, the psychic wolf priestess. Who, conviently enough, grew up isolated, her race at war with the dragons for caves. Because of this, she hates dragons. Recently went into the human world to find out current events and a way to save her dying race.

Psychic wolf? As in, a four-legged wolf? I think the closest thing that would work would be Choark's wolf-pigs http://mysidia.org/rpgww/Wolf-Pig . They live quite a while and have the ability to bond with humans (which might or might not involve telepathic communication, I forget). Conveniently, Gre'par'th http://mysidia.org/rpgww/Gre%27Par%27th gets most of its meat (and troubles) from neighboring dragons (wyrms). They aren't very intelligent dragons, but that's what they're called.

Yeah, I'm aware my characters don't fit well around here, and I don't know if I'd really want them to. Myriad, especially, I'm keeping in one particular world at the moment, in 'training', I guess. Future plot will have him going to different worlds for various reasons, but you don't know that, now do you?

Most of the RPs I've been in have been very fantastical, hence the card-playing chocobos and whatnot. Brinn is my only, well...normal guy. Traveling to another world, though, isn't happening. Basically, this forum'll be a fresh start, at least until Myriad's plot is furthened.

Also, Joshua was in an RP that never really got off the ground...never really cared for him, either. The Chocos and dragon family are the core of my previous RPing, and the others basically for specific one-shot RPs. Il'leth... she was made for the one RP, but I might be putting her onto a permanent basis.

Once I get a feel for the RPing around here, I'll probably make some new sheets...one time or permanent, I don't know. I'm really planning on having the aforementioned characters as the core of my RPing, with others being, well, less important. Not that I'll neglect them- they just probably won't have the same special meaning to me.